Over the State Highlights from Berks to Dauphin counties
A collage of notes from across the region includes Isage Long estimating 125 bushels per acre on 90 acres near Richland. Birdsboro council to buy railroad ties for winter firewood. Rev G A Kneer to serve St John s English Lutheran Ambler. Behrie s license revoked for hotel noncompliance. Dan Bishop loses a horse to a hog s tusks. Downingtown boy s affidavit leads to a $2 weasel bounty. Harrisburg Health crusade on meat handling practices. Gettysburg Mrs Kepner s poison sumac apple butter mishap. Hershey Chocolate donates four thousand dollars worth of flour for Belgian relief. courtroom quips about the last word and last argument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isage Long
Richland
Secre
Birdsboro
G. A. Kneer
Reading
St. John’s English Lutheran Church
Ambler
Charles W. Behrie
Griesmersville
Berks Court
David Bishop
Dillsburg
Jesse C. Thomson
Downingtown
West Chester
S. M. Paxson
Harrisburg Board of Health
H. V. Kepner
Gettysburg
The Story by Chapters
Chapter by chapter outline lists titles such as Charge of Order Detectives Murder In the Second Degree and The Getaway with sections on Planning Helps From the Dead Hunted The Coming of the Woman The Hand of the Law Stretches Out and other installments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Kearney
Innocent Lad James Montgomery Trapped in Murder Trial
James Montgomery is arrested for murder of a bank watchman and jailed in Sing Sing after a second degree verdict. He endures harsh prison life, becomes foreman of the machine shop, and plots an escape with cellmate Bill Hawkins as he awaits news of his ill mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Montgomery
New York
Michael Kearney
Montgomery
Sing Sing
Bill Hawkins
Cortunuers
Bill
Escape of a Convict From Sing Sing Ends in Hudson River
In 1913 a convict named James Montgomery plots an audacious escape with help from an inside associate, Bill. He hides in a machine shop crate, slips past guards, and flees Sing Sing by river and marshland, swimming to Nyack and continuing toward liberty as dawn breaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lille, Brown & Company
Snape
Montgomery
Bill
Bul
Bodkin
Hackensack Meadows
Homestead
Quadrangle
Ossining
Sing Sing
Uitle
Tarrytown
Hudson
Nyack
West Shore
Newark Bay
West Nyack
Erie
James Montgomery
Grand View
Jersey City
Help From the Dead in a Marsh Hideaway
Montgomery, fleeing from hounds after a long treacherous journey, hides in marsh grass near North Tarrytown. He endures thirst, rain, and insects while rationing his water from a cloth reservoir and braving a storm. A shocking sight awaits as he discovers a drowned man among the reeds. Continued next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jong
Montgomery
Bill
Sing Sing
North Tarrytown
Meridian
Job
Bildad
Getaway plan to stall machinery at night in prison chapter
In Chapter VI The Getaway the prison warden plans to delay installing new machinery by moving prisoners’ work at night. He consults with a conspirator and Montgomery approves the scheme. Boxes and crates are prepared in the carpentry division to rush shipment of displaced equipment while the new setup is erected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Also Mentioned on This Page
M. S. Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Company
Hershey
Sheridan
Pitt
Iam
the Herald
Sid
Eide Th
S. M. Huber
Lititz, Or
F. M. Bowman
Rethsville
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